Edward M. Lamont was a banker for twenty-three years with the World Bank and J.P. Morgan & Co., Inc. He also worked for the Marshall Plan and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC. He is Chairman of the Children's Aid Society in New York City. He and his wife, Camille, live in Laurel Hollow, Long Island, New York. Mr. Lamont is a grandson of Thomas W. Lamont.

The first biography of the man who, as J.P. Morgan's CEO and the leading banker of his generation, helped establish U.S. economic policy through his broad-reaching financial, political and social connections, written by his grandson.